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New York City transit workers voted Saturday to authorize a strike that could shut down bus and subway service at the height of the holiday shopping season.
Thousands of members of Transport Workers Local 100 voted to authorize their union’s leaders to call a walkout if the union and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority can’t agree on a new contract by midnight Thursday.
MTA officials said they were optimistic an agreement would be reached.
The last strike by city transit workers, in April 1980, halted mass transit for 11 days.
